Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-07

Bates of ST. Johnsbury; alternates
Barney Cannon of Bellows Falls. A
T. Woodward of Rutland, c. E. Err
win of Newport, Henry Ballard, O
Burlington, Chandler Watts o
Stowe. A. d. White of Huntington.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial CORRESPONDENTS THE MONITOR.
Washington. jan. 81.
Every one seems to have been sur.
prised when it was announced thai
there was really to be change il
the cabinet soon. SO many unbound.
ed reports of cabinet changes have
found their way to Washington from
distance during the present Admin
istration that people were not dis
posed to credit any rumor on this
subject.
But now it is generally believed
that Secretary Manning intends to
leave the Treasury Department after
the Adjournment of congress, to ac-
cept the presidency of the new Ma
tional Bank of New York, at a salary
of 500, 200 more than twice what he
gets as a member of the cabinet
There has been much speculation
during the past few days as to his
probable successor, and as to wheth-
er his resignation has anything to do
with unpleasantness between him and
the president.
There has been another woman
suffrage debate in the senate and an
other vote with the usual result.
''That was a magnificent triumph,
exclaimed Miss Susan B. Anthony,
as she gazed at the printed record of
the vote of two to one against her,
with which the senate rejected the
sixteenth amendment. There is moth
ing like her unfailing cheerfulness in
the midst of defeat. She cannot be
dismayed by adversely, and optimis-
tically greets every reverse with a
smile of hope.
There has also been a rafting and
spirited Woman's Suffrage conven-
ton at this favorite rallying point of
theirs since | last wrote you. This
was their nineteenth annual meeting
here, and Miss Anthony says it was
one of the most successful they have
ever had. The meetings were large
ly attended and the speaking was
the best the ladies could do. They
were much pleased at the good at
tendance, and compared the over
flowing audiences of this winter with
the empty benches which they adj
dressed in the years gone by, saying
it was now almost the fashionable
thing to do to go to the WOman's
Rights convention.
They have planned a great cele-
bration for next winter, in honor of
the fortieth anniversary of the be-
ginning of their movement in this
country. Forty years ago, Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at a meet
ing in Seneca Falls, n. Y, introduce
ed the first resolution favoring the
franchise of woman. She is billed
for a speech on the same subject at
the anniversary celebration, although
her husband is quoted as saying that
she is done with the suffrage agita-
ton.
Mr.: Stanton said that his wife is
convinced that her sex does not want
to vote. They do not suffer any in
convenience from the lack of the bal
lot, added he, they do not desire it to
any appreciate extent, and the suf-
frage agitators are banging away at
something that offers no response
whatever. He thought if one woman |
IN every ten, yes, in every hundred, |
would petition congress for the bal
lot they would get it at once.
AS the time for the president to
sign or veto the Interstate commerce
bill approaches, interest on the sub
ject increases. Senators and repre-
sentatiyes question each other in or
der to learn all the talk Of the houses
and lJbbies, and reports that the
president will sign it or veto it fly
alternately between the White House
and the Capitol.
Assuming that the measure will
get the executive signature, if there
is any difficulty in the selection of
men to serve their country on the
railway commission at 81 800 a year,
it will not be found in the sparsity of
candidates, but rather in the redun-
dancy of talent that will be spread
before the president. There are
about sixty men who have been men
toned for commissioners, many of
whom have been prominent and are
now relegated to private life.
The issue between the president
and the senate in regard to the re-
eorder of deeds. is very simple, and
cannot, in its present phase, be dis